LEARNING COUNTER-INTUITIVE SCIENCE CONCEPTS: WHAT HAVE WE LEARNED FROM OVER A DECADE OF RESEARCH?
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A decade and more of quantitative research has been conducted in reading education to determine the relative efficacy of various instructional strategies in changing students nonscientific preconceptions. Following a meta-analysis of these investigations, qualitative research has been conducted to explore how and why conceptual change occurs. This narrative review presents little-known ndings from these studies that have direct implications for classroom practice and future research agendas.
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Teachers have to unteach the intuitive conceptions that students develop outside the classroom.
“In addition to the problem of teaching the facts and processes of science, teachers also have to unteach the intuitive conceptions that students develop outside the classroom (Guzzetti, 2000;Harrison & Treagust, 1996).”
From FIFTH GRADE STUDENTS ENGAGED IN A COOPERATIVE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT: EVALUATING THEIR ABILITY TO DETERMINE THE STATUS OF THEIR OWN CONCEPTIONS ABOUT MATTER (2013) · cites this paper as Guzzetti, 2000
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- Authors
- Guzzetti, B. J.
- Corresponding author
- Guzzetti, Barbara J.
- Venue
- Reading & Writing Quarterly
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2000-04
- Volume
- 16
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 89-98
- ISSN
- 1057-3569 (ISSN-L)
- 1521-0693
- OpenAlex
- W2108765916
- Cited by
- 168
- References
- 0
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- FWCI
- 3.77
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Reading & Writing Quarterly (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Education › Science Education and Pedagogy
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Educational Strategies and Epistemologies
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Reading and Literacy Development
- Keywords
- conceptual change, science education, preconceptions, misconceptions, teaching methods, reading instruction, teaching practice
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